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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️

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Hello! I'm Sasha, aka Sharka. I'm a self-employed freelance writer, trans-f furrified #retrogaming and #Retrocomputing nerd, and amateur VG and popular culture historian and enthusiast from the UK.

Here in my little corner of Mastodon, you'll find me tooting frequently about one of my geeky passions as I love to bring nostalgic joy and cool stuff to peeps!

These passions include #C64, #Amiga and #DOSGaming, #PS1, #PS2, and #Wii, #TTRPGs, #FFXIV, and VG magazines and ads.

Youtube	https://www.youtube.com/c/SharkaBytes
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Fanzine	https://sharkabytes.itch.io/between-the-scanlines
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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago

DeltaWye 3d ago

Is “indigenous” a better word than “natives” when describing people who originally settled an area?

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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago

@DeltaWye I feel it's a more preferred term based on how much I've seen it used.

Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 10

Richard Troupe Mar 10

A couple of weeks ago, I managed to pick up this Twinhead Slimnote 486/DX2 laptop for very cheap but it was untested.

The big problem is that it doesn't have a power supply and the PSU it uses needs a Kycon KPPX-4P connector.

All suggestions for a suitable PSU would come in handy!

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 27

Don Bisdorf Feb 24

My DOS CGA game jam entry is now up on itch.io:

https://dbisdorf.itch.io/athena-station

I think there's the bones of a decent space trading game here, but at a minimum it needs to be better tested/debugged/tuned. Also I'd want to reconsider the UI, which is inconsistent and a bit too text-heavy.

But it's playable, and I learned a lot, which is exactly what I want out of a game jam.

Athena Station by Don Bisdorf

Space trading game for DOS

itch.io

Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 18

The kind of character portraits that write their own stories.

A motley crew of NPCs you'll run into in 'Beast City', one of the last cities remaining on Earth after WWIII, where 'screamers' descend into the depths of the bio-monster infested BIAS zone to hunt them for credits and score.

One of the earlier sci-fi/cyberpunk dungeon crawlers I've played.

📺: The Screamer, MagicalZoo, 1985 (PC-88/98)

#PC88 #PC98 #scifi #rpg #retrogaming #retrcomputing #pixelart